Channing Tatum really wants to play Gambit....

[BaneTheDestroyer]

X-Men: Days of Future Past is set to garner some serious buzz this weekend with the mutant ensemble movie set to drop a new trailer during the Super Bowl.

But it's the rumors of a possible Gambit movie that have stolen the headlines recently.

In an interview with Empire, X-Men producer Lauren Shuler has revealed a Gambit movie might be closer than you think and Channing Tatum is almost certainly locked in for the lead:

I'm dying to do a Gambit movie with Channing Tatum. That doesn't have to be a great big movie. It's a thief in New Orleans, it's a whole different story. He's on board, and I have to get the studio on board. How can anyone resist Channing? He's such a sweetheart.

Tatum is a huge X-Men fan and considering he comes from the New Orleans area, he seems like the ideal choice to play the Cajun card-thrower.

Tatum agrees, admitting so much during a recent press junket for White House Down:

I would like to play Gambit. Gambit’s my favorite. I’m from New Orleans, around that area. My dad’s from New Orleans, and I like to do a Cajun accent. I could do it for real.

The last time we saw Gambit on screen was Taylor Kitsch's strangely unnecessary and out of place performance in X-Men Origins: Wolverine. This is a mistake that Tatum clearly doesn't want to repeat:

No knock on Taylor Kitsch, though, ’cause I actually like his Gambit, but I’ve always lived around Cajun people. Gambit was always like the woman-loving, cigarette-smoking, drinking guy. He was the punk rock of all the superheroes. He’s a thief. He kind of rode the line.

I think Tatum would be great choice for Gambit and he clearly has a respect and reverence for the character. I say sign him up immediately!

I will shoot myself if Gambit is ruined by....this....

[wildknight]

I'd be okay with Tatum as Gambit, honestly, except for one thing... I've never known him to be able to not speak like a somewhat ghetto-fied city boy, and that's a far cry from a swamp rat from Louisiana. It's not fair to say "oh well Gambit is from New Orleans"... yes, he is, but he's not a city boy by nature.

[Rush]

I'm all for this . I'm in the minority that actually like Tatum. I think he's good actor. I wish he would do more movies that require acting like how Pitt did his movies before he beceme a world ambassador. Tatum can pull this off

[wildknight]

Jan 31, 2014 16:19:57 GMT -5 Rush said:

I think he's good actor.

LOL no he's not.

Luckily you don't need to be a good actor to play Gambit.

[WSS?]

Sounds good to me.

[pinksparklepuff]

I have no problem with Tatum. He shot himself in the foot when he saddled himself with Milky Way Mike, which will stick with him for pretty much forever.

However, Fox doesn't have the balls that Marvel has and they're not about to release a movie revolving around a singular hero without more star power to join him.
It'd be origins all over again, except Wolvie didn't need an ensemble of C-listers to back him up.

[charliebucketsgranpa]

Yea, Tatum is terrible. I don't even know what Gambit is, so I really don't care but Tatum is terrible.